Rate paralysis creates illusion of stability

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Long-term rates have been unchanged for a month and a half, the 10-year T-note between 2.5 and 2.7 percent, mortgages near 4.5 percent. That stability is an illusion.
Trading desks now labor in deafening toe-tapping, pencil-drumming, fidgeting and superstitious desk-rearranging (and sock selection) as everyone waits for the economy to declare itself. Will the Fed's acceleration appear? Or another false dawn?
It's going to take months to know, hence the rate paralysis. A thin week for data supported acceleration: The ISM service-sector jumped to 56 in July, way above expectation and one of the best readings in five years. Stocks are sliding, the fear of Fed withdrawing stimulus trumping a better economy -- which seems odd, but so has the stock market run.
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